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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Hornblower notice about Marie?
(a) She speaks better Italian than English.
(b) She is not quite 20.
(c) Her dark eyes, auburn hair and simple beauty.
(d) She speaks French with an accent.

2. Where does the coach slide?
(a) Into a mud bog.
(b) Off the elevated roadway and almost into the river.
(c) Into a huge tree.
(d) Into Napoleon's carriage.

3. Who does the Count introduce?
(a) His sister.
(b) His daughter-in-law.
(c) His mother.
(d) His daughter.

4. Who is Lady Barbara Leighton?
(a) His wife's sister.
(b) His wife's mother.
(c) His mother.
(d) The wife of his admiral and the love of his life.

5. When does the Count think it will be safe to escape?
(a) A week.
(b) In a few weeks.
(c) April.
(d) Within a few days when the hunt is abandoned.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is remarkable about Hornblower and the battle?

2. How many sons does the Count have?

3. Where is Captain Horatio Hornblower languishing?

4. How is Admiral Leighton's victory made possible?

5. What is the atmosphere in France because of Napoleon's reign?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens that stops the escapees' trip down the river?

2. Why does Colonel Caillard come to Rosas prison? What is Caillard like as a man? How do you think Hornblower felt about the man?

3. How did Hornblower end up where he is at the beginning of the novel?

4. How does Hornblower appeal to Caillard's humanity and what is Caillard's response?

5. What does Hornblower say is the reason Bush should not be executed and what is Caillard's response? What does the response say to you about his character?

6. What are mostly in Hornblower's thoughts as he waits his future?

7. How does the Spanish warden help Hornblower? Why do you think he would do that? Do you think that makes him a traitor to his country?

8. What does the French innkeeper do for the English prisoners before they leave? What thoughts does Hornblower mull as they travel in the coach?

9. How does Hornblower feel when preparing for bed with the other prisoners? How does he feel about his pending execution? Do you think he is a coward that he worries about his possible reaction at the time of the execution?

10. What seems to be one of Hornblowers primary emotional states? What does he think when he reviews his actions which led to his imprisonment?

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